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PROF Richard Fardon's Outputs (63)

The histories of an enlightened ruler: Malam Muhamman Bitemya Sambo, Garbosa II of Donga, Central Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article
Fardon, R., & Furniss, G. (2021). The histories of an enlightened ruler: Malam Muhamman Bitemya Sambo, Garbosa II of Donga, Central Nigeria. Vestiges, 7(2), 28-61

Muhamman Bitemya Sambo (1902-82), who became Garbosa II, the seventh Gara Donga (1931-82), took more than thirty years to complete a history of his own Chamba people in 1956, Labarun Chambawa da Al’Amurransu. Garbosa II’s successor, together with rep... Read More about The histories of an enlightened ruler: Malam Muhamman Bitemya Sambo, Garbosa II of Donga, Central Nigeria.

History and Customs of the Chamba M. S. Garbosa II (Gara Donga) (2021)
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(2021). History and Customs of the Chamba M. S. Garbosa II (Gara Donga). Vestiges: Traces of Record, 7(2), 62-159

Muhamman Bitemya Sambo (1902-82), who became Garbosa II, the seventh Gara Donga (1931-82), took more than thirty years to complete a history of his own Chamba people in 1956, Labarun Chambawa da Al’Amurransu. Garbosa II’s successor, together with rep... Read More about History and Customs of the Chamba M. S. Garbosa II (Gara Donga).

Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture – style and ethnicity (2020)
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Fardon, R. (2020). Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture – style and ethnicity. Afriques: Débats, méthodes et terrains d’histoire, 10, https://doi.org/10.4000/afriques.2586

Revisiting the attribution of figures to Mumuye, provides us with an opportunity to think about the effects of ethnic labelling on our appreciation of "precontemporary African art." By virtue of not being typical, extreme cases throw more general iss... Read More about Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture – style and ethnicity.

Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas (2018)
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Fardon, R. (2018). Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas. Anthropology Today, 34(4), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12450

There is no absolute measure for the lasting impact of work by anthropologists. However, the scholarship of Mary Douglas has achieved wide‐ranging interdisciplinary recognition. Here the author considers ways in which her work has impacted scholarshi... Read More about Immortality yet? Or, the permanence of Mary Douglas.

'Do you hear me? It is me Akiga' Akiga’s 'Story' and Akiga Sai’s 'History’ (2015)
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Fardon, R. (2015). 'Do you hear me? It is me Akiga' Akiga’s 'Story' and Akiga Sai’s 'History’. Africa, 85(4), 572-598. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972015000595

The publication of a new translation of Akiga Sai’s History of the Tiv invites reappraisalof Akiga himself as a local intellectual. This essay presents a biographical account of this early Tiv convert to Christianity, locating his celebrated History... Read More about 'Do you hear me? It is me Akiga' Akiga’s 'Story' and Akiga Sai’s 'History’.